Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 28

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• I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Thinking, People, Dead People

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• France has more need of me than I have need of France.

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  Needs, France

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• In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

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  Military, War, Three

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• Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Example, Sometimes, States

  "Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts" collected and published by Cte. A. G. de Liancourt; edited by James Alexander Manning, (p. 248), 1848.

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• There are two kinds of fidelity, that of dogs and that of cats; you, gentleman, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house.

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  Friendship, Dog, Cat

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• The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.

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  Power, Politics, Geography

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• We are nothing but by the law.

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  Law, Nations

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• To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

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  Writing, Men, Vanity

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• I have come to realise that men are not born to be free.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Born, Born To Be Free

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• Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.

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  Kings, Kindness, Justice

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.

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  Morning, Mean, Opportunity

  Quoted in E. A. de Las Cases, Memorial de Ste-Helene (1823) (entry for 4 - 5 Dec. 1815)

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• It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Suicide, War, Climate

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• Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Flower, Men, Degenerates

  "The table talk and opinions of Napoleon Buonaparte" by Napoleon Bonaparte, (p. 148), 1868.

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• As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

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  Courage, Morning, Mean

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• Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.

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  Luck, Genius

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• When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

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  Leadership, Mean, Order

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• Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

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  Men, Wealth, Thirty

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Religions are all founded on miracles - on things we cannot understand, such as the Trinity. Jesus calls himself the Son of God, and yet is descended from David. I prefer the religion of Mahomet - it is less ridiculous than ours.

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  Jesus, Son, Army

  "The St. Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud, 1815-1818 : Being a Diary written at St. Helena during a part of Napoleon's Captivity", translated by Norman Edwards, 1932.

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• A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

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  Men, Power, Should Have

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• You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

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  Wind, Civilization, Ships

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• I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.

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  Kissing, Long, Burning

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• Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

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  Wine, Joy, Add

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• In war it is not men, but the man who counts.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Men, He Man

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• Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it.

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  Country, Danger, States

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. IX), 1916.

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• To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.

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  Dream, Military, Fighting

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